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Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida

FreedomWorks PAC’s Champion of Freedom, Marco Rubio trounced his Republican Florida Senate primary opposition garnering 85 percent of the vote. Rubio will now face Democrat Kendrick Meek and former Republican Charlie Crist, who chose to run as an independent after polls showed his weak appeal against Rubio.

A new Public Policy Polling release shows Rubio leading Crist and Meek, 40-32-17% respectively, revealing once more that the best candidate for Florida and America’s future is Marco Rubio.

“Are we prepared to go down in history as the next generation of Americans who did what we had to do to ensure that this exceptional place remained that way?” said Rubio in his victory remarks. “Or will we go down as the first Americans ever to leave our children worse off?

Also in Florida, FreedomWorks PAC Champion of Freedom Col. Allen West won the Florida Congressional District 22 Republican primary with a stunning 76 percent of the vote. Col. West defeated David Brady, who pandered to Democrats on everything from regulatory policy to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

"This evening, after nearly 2 years of hard work, our campaign to restore honor, integrity and character to Washington reached an important milestone.” said Col. West in the Sun-Sentinel. “With GOP turnout significantly higher than Democratic turnout throughout District 22, our victory tonight is proof that South Floridians are sick and tired of the status-quo in Washington, and are looking for leaders instead of politicians."

Col. West, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, had a long and decorated military career spanning from Operation Desert Storm to present operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. During this time, Col. West earned a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals and three Army Commendation Medals.

As a true fiscal conservative, Col. West vows to restore the independence of Social Security and reduce the tax burdens faced by all Americans.

“The 2010 mid-term elections come down to two diametrically opposing philosophies: public sector raising taxes, printing and borrowing more money or private sector investment, ingenuity, and innovation,” said Col. West.

West now faces Democratic incumbent Ron Klein in the general election on November 2. Rep. Klein voted in favor of the bank bailouts, Obamacare and remains what many pundits consider a vulnerable incumbent in this election cycle.

The tsunami of state-level civil asset forfeiture reforms continues to build as the Florida and Maryland legislatures are considering bills that would take small steps toward protecting innocent people's property from government overreach. The state legislatures that have passed or are considering civil asset forfeiture reforms include Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia.

Whew, it’s been a tough week. Looking back on the last five years and all the harm ObamaCare has done to this country is a real downer. In order to head into the weekend on a slightly lighter note, let’s conclude our series with a little frivolity, the five best quotes about ObamaCare.

On the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, a panel, moderated by Sabrina Schaeffer of the Independent Women’s Forum, met to discuss what’s next for Common Core. Their conclusion: Common Core will be a very important platform stance in the 2016 election. They are completely right.

Today, Florida Governor Rick Scott fought for children in his state and for the 10th Amendment in one fell swoop. He did this by removing Florida from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARC), the consortium creating Common Core tests, of which Florida was the fiscal agent. Scott’s executive order began:

In March, I reported on the first signs of new life from the National Republican Senatorial Committee after the disastrous 2012 election cycle, in which conservatives lost ground in the US Senate despite expectations of actually taking over that chamber of congress. Given the rise of new media and the stagnation of legacy media, the NRSC has taken the initiative to facilitate communications by creating a new blogger outreach position.

Today on The FreedomCast, Allysen Efferson joins me to discuss the GOP’s new targeted demographic, the “mommy blogger.” It’s about time, don’t they know we talk to everybody?
More from Dana Loesch on RedState

Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a new educational reform bill into law which some are calling “an education revolution.” This bill is aimed at revamping high school education in the state of Florida that will lead to more students being able to get a job upon graduation.

Karl Rove published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that Republicans lost the 2012 Presidential election, in part, because Democrats maintain a significant data advantage over Republicans. While this may be true, Rove’s contention is that with its own “army of computer engineers, mathematicians and social scientists” Republicans will be able to win elections they would have lost otherwise. As a practicing mathematician, I can tell you that Rove has no idea what he is talking about.

Much was made of the New York Times article earlier this month that detailed how Karl Rove has created an offshoot of American Crossroads to fund candidates in Republican primaries that are, in the estimation of well heeled GOP donors, "more electable". At Breitbart.com, Ben Shapiro described it as Rove having declared war on the Tea Party.